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there's a new genre becoming more and more popular as single genres are exhausted. Voila! Fusion films are born.
This is a film really about man's intelligence, its potential, and its purpose not very thinly disguised as an international drug/action flick.
I don't mind watching Scarlett for a couple of hours, the sophomoric philosophizing beats most of the dialogue in these kinds of films--- just don't expect an edge of your seat ride.
Malick's "Tree of Life" meets "Nikita."
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Just saw it earlier today - loved it! The lapses in logic I've read about in various reviews and posts seem pretty trivial to me. In particular, loved the artistic quality of the editing, loved Scarlett, loved the interesting grafting (or, as you say, fusion) of the two genres - the whole movie IMHO was way better than Edge of Tomorrow, which we'd just seen a couple of days previously.
I for one thoroughly enjoyed it! I did not find it an incomprehensible mashup of different films.
I thought it was easy to follow. And correctly stated the action and payback was really the secondary story.
I found it to be a great example of Besson's work. I actually liked it turned out to be other than what the trailers made it out to be. The amount of CGI didn't bother me even though the quality suffered at times. I lied it!
Best,
Dave
I don't know; have only see the movie ads, but "Lucy" is an Australopithecus hominid found in Africa; possibly the oldest human to date. The current marker for transition from ape to human along the sliding gray scale in anthropology.
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It was a relatively enjoyable mashup of "Unlimited" "2001" "The Matrix" "Femme Nikita" and "Transcendence". However, there were so many holes in the narrative that I found it hard to stop being a critic during the film.
For example:
The 10% brain capacity idea has long been discredited and seriously undermines the premise of the film.
Also, there is absolutely no back story on the drug - making it very confusing as to why the bad guys didn't just take the drug themselves or simply buy more of it to sell? Why sell such a drug when they could use it themselves and crush all who opposed them?
What was the deal with the dead guys in the back office? Why did they shoot the boyfriend? What was the reason they didn't trust him yet had him deliver this drug to them? Why did there need to be a big shootout at the university when Lucy clearly could have dealt with the bad guys by herself and saved a bunch of lives?
Arrrggghhhh!
This movie is not at all as the trailer shows it. It is a mixed media confusion of effects and story lines told by a French director and shot like a Korean film. Sure, Scarlett looked really good but the jumping back and forth with CGI and animation in order to philosophize about our beginnings and ultimate potential was just too much for the film and the writer. This would have been a far better production if the sci fi-fantasy had been left out or if Chris Nolan had made the picture.
Min-sik Choi (THE Oldboy) played the drug kingpin attempting to distribute a newly synthesized drug that gives a "killer" high but is discovered (by Lucy) to have properties that slowly increase the brain's capacity to process. Lucy starts at 10% and ends up at 100%. Between Freeman lecturing on the brain and how it works, criminals chasing Lucy, and us meeting Lucy One, the film seems ponderous but entertanining.
I'm not displeased with what I saw but am disappointed by the over use of science fantasy, CGI, and things that just didn't need to be there. Besson is a great action director and there was some pretty good action but he borrowed heavily out of Nolan's playbook to make a movie that is slightly more pretentious than it needs to be.
Since there is no Scarlett t&a just wait for the disk unless you want to get out.
She seems to have entered into a marriage with sci fi and action heroes of late. She is getting dangerously close to being a niche player who flies through the air or fights like a demon rather than a feminine woman taking on reality in drama and light comedy. Although her looks are better suited for the supra-normal vixen her agent better wake up and get her some face-to-face roles where she can be "a girl".
Perhaps she just wanted to pick up an extra paycheck(s) since she is pregnant (assumed planned).
...remember she was nominated for an Oscar for "Her" last year and didn't even appear on screen.
Not bad.
art films, I'm sure. She's versatile and hopefully her action roles won't end her career as the Kill Bill films appear to have eroded that of Uma T.
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